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Tuesday, 28 December 2010

The Difference Between

Fact & Fiction



Fact: We've been making rhetorical comments about each for a long time (Established).

Fact: One of them is, "Real life is Stranger than Fiction!", (Agreed)
"In the words of Aristotle, in his essay Rhetoric, rhetoric is
"the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion".

According to Aristotle, this art of persuasion could be used in public settings in three different ways. He writes in Book I, Chapter III,

"A member of the assembly decides about future events, a juryman about past events: while those who merely decide on the orator's skill are observers.

From this it follows that there are three divisions of oratory-
(1) political, (2) forensic, and (3) the ceremonial oratory of display".

Fact : We have a huge number of famous celebrities, best known for their acting ability - We Admire this ability - Greatly. (Why is that.... do you think?).

Fact: We have a lot of Fiction.

Fact: A lot of Fiction includes Fact.

Fact: Somethings, once regarded, as Fiction, have been proven since to be Facts.

Fact: All things Fictitious have an element of truth -> it needs to be convincing.

Fact: A number of well known Facts have since proved to be Fiction.

Fact: Fact & Fiction are fluid and interchangeable (or did I mean interchangible?).